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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Query

Hello, Firefly,

I just noticed that Shewasafairy and I'm tla were receently blocked. In the block rationale for I'm tla you allude to Shewasafairy so were they sockpuppets of each other? Was there a sockmaster or an SPI I can look at? They both participated in AFD discussions and I'm unsure whether or not their comments should be struck. Really as much information as you Checkusers can sharee can help the rest of us know how to treat their contributions. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@Liz yes, treat them as socks of each other. I don't know whether there's an SPI for this case - Blablubbs do you know? firefly ( t · c ) 07:13, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you help with the master?

I am hoping to find the master in order to file an SPI (unless you can do a quick CU). User is I'm tla who shows blocked by you but I do not see the master. It links to another blocked user (Shewasafairy) but I cannot locate that master either. Both accounts were the only !keep votes in an AfD for Failatu Abdul-Razak in February 2024. There are now four SPA accounts (Amu'az4Z, Adamu ab, Yaw tuba, and Adansi11) who worked on and submitted Draft:Abdul-Razak Failatu. Note the attempt at changing the name to avoid detection of the previous deletion as well as similarity of usernames from the deletion discussion. Think it is worth a check but let me know if there is a master I can point to. Thanks. CNMall41 (talk) 05:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Also note that the person who uploaded the image (OJjnr) is also blocked. --CNMall41 (talk) 05:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

@CNMall41 took a look with CU - the accounts there don't appear to be related. Of course it could be a different group of people being paid to edit about the same person... firefly ( t · c ) 14:21, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Behavior says it is likely UPE so I just tagged it as such. Thanks for looking into the SOCK aspect. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Firefly bot

Hello, Firefly,

I sometimes notice that drafts/sandboxes come up for CSD G13 deletion and they never received a Firefly bot notice. Usually, I forget about them and so don't report them to you but tonight I saw a sandbox coming due tomorrow that is User:Andrewkathie/sandbox and they don't have any User talk page messages so Firefly Bot didn't post a notification to them. I hope you get this message before the page is deleted so you can look into this example. Thanks so much! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:27, 28 April 2024 (UTC)